Diana
The 2025 national count puts Diana at #244, as settled as a name gets. The peak was 1957, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Diana carries
Diana · Latin
“goddess”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Diana’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Diana, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Diana since 1880
Diana peaked in 1957 at #43; #244 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Diana is most common
Among the states, Diana takes its largest share in Delaware, 0.22% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with North Dakota and Maine next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Diana
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Patrick
#235 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
Vincent
#107 in 2025 · Latin
Mark
#245 in 2025 · Latin
Timothy
#203 in 2025 · Latin
Valerie
#127 in 2025 · Latin
Justin
#233 in 2025 · Latin
Gracie
#227 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with D · Latin names · all names
About Diana
Where does Diana rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Diana at #244, as settled as a name gets. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Diana?
The reference we cite records “goddess”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Diana?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Patrick, Alan and Vincent, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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